If anyone is interested, I’ve posted a new blog post over at the 101 Travel Bits website: 5 Travel Tips for the Florida Keys. A quick excerpt:
Are you planning a trip to the Florida Keys? Here are five travel tips to help make your trip to the Florida Keys a trip you will never forget!
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Get Closer to the Water
If you’re traveling the 113 miles of the Overseas Highway between the mainland and Key West, you’ll be traveling over 42 bridges. A full 15% of the drive is spent on bridges. If you’re in the Keys, you shouldn’t just look at the water as you cross bridges, though, you should find a way to get closer to it! Take a dip at one of the beaches. Snorkel or scuba dive the Florida Reef, which is the third largest coral barrier reef in the world. Take a spin on a jet ski or book a fishing excursion on Islamorada, the Sportfishing Capital of the World. A visit to the Florida Keys isn’t complete unless you find a way to experience its blue waters up close and personal!
Read the whole thing here.
I’ll periodically be posting over at the 101 Travel Bits blog; when I do, I’ll be sure to put a note here (so you don’t have to follow two blogs). As you can see from this excerpt, the posts over there will be more promotional for the 101 Travel Bits books than posts are here, but as this blog does have some travel stuff (or at least purports to), I figure it will be of interest to some of you. And if it isn’t, you never have to click over there! It’s a win-win for everyone.
Also, this is a good reminder that if you haven’t purchased any of the books, you can click on the links below to purchase them.
101 Travel Bits: The Alaska Highway
101 Travel Bits: The Overseas Highway
And, because I love it, here’s a picture of Choppy with Betsey the Lobster in the Florida Keys.
I love the photo of Betsy and Choppy
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I do too – she seemed unimpressed by the giant lobster.
Also, think of the size of bug salad that one could make – you’d be in bug salad for years.
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Mmm… I’m dreaming of it
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thank you for the reblog!
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Could be a wonderful meal for Choppy and Schooner too. LOL
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Just imagine how many yummy Lobster Rolls that would be….although finding a Lobster that huge would definitely defer me from capturing it….
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On the plus side, you’d probably make a mint telling the story of the time you saw a lobster of that size!
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I was the pilot for a Fortune 500 CEO who kept a 115 yacht in Florida and we’d fly him down on weekends, usually to Key West. We’d hang out until he was ready to go home in 2-4 days. LOVE the Keys.
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They are my favorite place – the moment I step foot there, it’s like worries fade away and I just relax.
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I was the pilot for a Fortune 500 CEO who kept a 115 foot yacht in Florida and we’d fly him down on weekends, usually to Key West. We’d hang out until he was ready to go home in 2-4 days. LOVE the Keys.
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Duplicate comment – typo 🙂 Lin
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Great pic Sarah ! 🙂
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Thanks!
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Lovely! A trip to the Keys has always been on my list. Hopefully in the near future!
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I can’t recommend anyplace more than there – I just love the Keys.
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Oh, I remember that giant lobster so very well! 😀 We were on our way back to Miami after some days at Marathon Keys, and I could not help, I had to turn our car and drive back because I had to photograph that lobster! 😀
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I think a lot of people do the same thing – the first time you see it, it just shows up and you don’t realize it is coming.
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Wow! That’s one huge lobster! Why am I getting hungry all of a sudden? 😉
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I think it made more than a few people hungry!
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Awk, the lobster looks like it’s ready to lasso Choppy!
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Great article. 🙂 I am hoping to make it to the keys one of these days….
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Thanks! I definitely recommend heading down there. It’s a great place to visit.
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I really need to get down to the Keys… sound amazing
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Oh, definitely – I love it down there!
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